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Bush's Venezuelagate Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 U.S. logic hard to follow Iraqi 'human shields' flock to Najaf AU leader says Darfur crisis test case for Africa International Observers Ratify Chávez's Triumph in Referendum Although the opposition complained of fraud, the international election observer missions monitoring the recall referendum in Venezuela agreed Monday that President Hugo Chávez had won, and said they found no signs of fraud. Nobel Peace laureate and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General César Gaviria said in a joint news briefing in Caracas that Chávez survived Sunday’s referendum. President Chavez celebrates victory Brain Dead, Made of Money, No Future at All CIA-backed opposition suffers defeat in Venezuelan referendum The Venezuelan people on Sunday delivered a stunning defeat to a right-wing coalition backed by Washington, rejecting its demand for the ouster of the country’s elected president, Hugo Chavéz. Oiling welfare's wheels Bush’s Venezuelagate Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggest that the U.S. continues to support and finance Chávez’s opposition. According to these documents, the Congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy provided $53,400 to Súmate , the organizer of the petition drive to oust Chávez, whose leader Maria Corina Machado "signed-in" as a witness at the April 2002 coup government swearing-in ceremony that temporarily removed Chávez from power—an act widely considered to represent endorsement of the April 2002 coup .   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |